Agostino Bonalumi was born in Vimercate (MI) in 1935, but he lives and works in Milan.
After some experience concerning the overtaking of informal painting through the use of "poor" and experimental materials such as cement, sticks, straw, in 1959, he created a personal language related to the evagination and introflexion of canvas. Faithful to a concept that has never been betrayed along the different stages of research, Bonalumi is now aiming at the creation of “object” works, in which the dissolved and free sign still alludes to construction, and environments with perceptive and constructive peculiarities.

Other than numerous solo and collective exhibitions presented by prestigious private galleries as well as in public spaces worldwide, it's worth mentioning, among Bonalumi's most important and recent one-man shows, his participation in La Quadriennale di Roma (Rome Quadrennial) and in the Venice Biennial in 1986. His 2001 retrospective at Palazzo Carpegna in Rome, presented by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, on the occasion of the Presidente della Repubblica award and, in 2002, the creation of an " environment-work" entitled Spazio trattenuto Spazio invaso on the occasion of the Temi e variazioni exhibition, presented by the Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim's head office in Venice. In 2004, Bonalumi participated in the exhibition entitled Monocromos de Malevich al presente, cured by Barbara Rose, presented by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, in Madrid. Bonalumi's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1998, with the presentation of his one-man show and the publication of a monograph with texts by Alberto Fiz and Marco Meneguzzo. This relationship has actively continued and one proof is the creation—in cooperation with Galleria Niccoli in Parma—of the outstanding volume with more than 300 pages, which documents his work from the beginning. This publication was presented during the exhibition at the gallery as well as published for the 2003 retrospective, presented by the Institut Mathildenhöe in Darmstadt (D).